Science & Technology

Kerry says US examining carbon border tax, sees risks

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BERLIN — U.S. special envoy for climate John Kerry said Tuesday that Washington is looking into the possibility of introducing a fee on imports...

Energy agency: End new fossil fuel supply investments

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BERLIN — A report by the International Energy Agency says immediate action is needed to reshape the world's energy sector in order to meet...

Tiny bats put kibosh on power line tree-cutting for 2 months

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PORTLAND, Maine — Tree-cutting on a key stretch of a power line in western Maine is going to stop almost as soon as it...

Poland’s main Belchatow power plant crippled by outage

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WARSAW, Poland — Energy experts were working Tuesday to restore full operations at Poland’s biggest power plant, the lignite coal-fueled Belchatow, after an energy...

Dubai police warn ‘wild cat’ stalks residential neighborhood

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai police Tuesday warned inhabitants of a residential neighborhood in the skyscraper-studded city that a “wild cat" was loose...

Report says Myanmar internet a ‘virtual battlefield’

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BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military rulers are seeking to limit access to the internet to an internal network of only “whitelisted” sites to quash opposition...

US Space Force missile-warning satellite rockets into orbit

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A $1 billion missile-warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force rocketed toward orbit Tuesday. ...

Irish health system struggling to recover from cyberattack

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LONDON — Ireland’s health system was still struggling to restore its computers and treat patients on Tuesday, four days after it shut down its...

Webby Awards go to Fauci, Oprah, DuVernay and Pharrell

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NEW YORK — Dr. Anthony Fauci, Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay, Riz Ahmed, Dua Lipa, Andra Day and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson all won honors...

Biden plan would pick winners, losers in move to green jobs

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WASHINGTON — In Georgia, school bus-maker Blue Bird has visions of going from selling a few hundred electric buses annually to 15,000. In Michigan,...